Te press- reports being more or less conflicting about your attitude toward the immigration bill gives us some appreheision over tie outcome of the bill if the Senate passes It unamCded with the illiteracy test In the same form as the bill passed tile House on the 4th of February. Our organization. in convention held .June. 114. In Washington. D. C.. officially indorsed this bill. and its representatives have appeared personally before the -louoe Committee oa Immigration and urged the passage of the bill with the illiteracy test in it. Organized labor generally has advocated the need of placing some restrictions upon lmmgration. Competition between the employed and uremployed grows flercer year by year. and we believe that tile time has arrived when our tiovernmenl must close Its doors against the Influx of Illiterate Immigrants until stch time. at least. as our Nations dueational instittilons may be able to edtcate the Illiterates now within Its dominion One of labors "corner stones" Is education. and Its attitde oa this question must be Inflexible if our social Ftability Is to be preserved You are quoted as saving that von favored " reasonable restriction." end in behalf of the mem!bers of this organization and ltbor in general. I respectfully urge you to construe the illitertcy test as being the most reasonable restriction to be pht tpon Immigration and to use every honorable effort to make the bill a law. Very respectfully. yours.
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